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She is the coffeehouse cook, and Mattie thinks of her as a best friend. Eliza, an African American, is free like most blacks in Philadelphia. Mattie, lives over a coffeehouse with her mother (Lucille), grandfather, a parrot, and a cat. As usual she has slept in and needs to hurry to get to her chores in the garden. Set in colonial, Philadelphia, the story begins with 14-year old Matilda (Mattie) Cook waking up to the sounds of the street noise and the buzzing mosquitos. Mattie’s daydreaming days are interrupted by an epidemic of Yellow Fever, and she needs to find the strength to pull things back together. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.īonus: Appendix: Historical accounts and contexts – 1793 in Philadelphia. And then her teeth start clattering together.

On the way back, Mattie starts feeling the heat and her hunger.

Fortunately for Mattie, she finds a pear tree and picks the fruit to take back to Grandfather.

The first farmer she meets with shoos her away from his farmhouse, afraid that she has the fever.

Grandfather sends Mattie to find food and blankets from a farm.

Though the heat is sweltering, he's somehow cold and shivering.

Mattie returns to Grandfather fishless, but with water.

With the unwieldy petticoat and King George fluttering above her head, though, she eventually crashes into the water. She takes off her petticoat and fashions it into a net.

At the stream, Mattie bathes and then turns her attention to food.

King George squawks and flutters about her head.

On her walk, she contemplates what to do, beating herself up for not being stronger.

Mattie wakes up and sets off for the stream, followed by Grandfather's annoying parrot, King George.